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Registration in the Palm of Your Hand

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, December 3rd, 2009

When patients were admitted to the new El Camino Hospital in Mountain View for the first time on Monday, November 16, the registration process included something most people associate with sci-fi thrillers -- a cutting edge biometric registration system that "reads" patients' identities by scanning the unique vein structures in their palms.

The system El Camino Hospital is using as an integral part of its new patient registration and identification system is the Fujitsu PalmSecure™ palm vein biometric authentication technology. The PalmSecure technology's integration with HT Systems' PatientSecure and McKesson's Star Hospital Information Systems provides El Camino...

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